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Serendipity and a Serving of Humble Pie

Lead Change Blog

Sadly, I mocked her advice several times. Shame on me because her advice wasn’t wrong, it was flat out brilliant. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman nailed it when he observed it was incredibly difficult for us to see our own biases. That confirmed my belief the speaker had it all wrong. Serving up humble pie.

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Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Great Leadership By Dan

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explains in his book, Thinking Fast and Slow , we don’t embrace ambiguity because of “…our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in.” Listen so you get good ideas to build on.

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The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. The behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman once noted that “if you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. “If you follow your intuition, you will more often than not err by misclassifying a random event as systematic. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Crack the Leadership Code

Skip Prichard

Daniel Kahneman. What advice do you have for the brand new leader who is full of drive and wants to get off to a great start? I recently spoke with him about his work. We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.” If not, they’ll flounder.

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How to Improve Your Decision-Making Skills

Harvard Business Review

Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his work on cognitive biases, points out in an HBR article that a team that has fallen in love with its theories may unconsciously ignore or reject contradictory evidence, place too much weight on one piece of data, or make faulty comparisons to another business case that suits its bias.

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5 Ways to Project Confidence in Front of an Audience

Harvard Business Review

You’ve probably heard the advice to “dress to impress” but what exactly does that mean? In his book, Thinking, Fast and Slow , Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman writes, “If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.”

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Managers Shouldn’t Fear Algorithm-Based Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

Their recent Harvard Business Review article, coauthored with Noble Prize–winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman and TGG’s CEO Andrew M. What’s your advice for how experts should interact with algorithms? How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions. Stop Second-Guessing Your Decisions at Work. Carolyn O’Hara.